Artist Profile Miria Miria

Miria’s vibrant, symbol-rich surfaces honor living tradition with luminous authority.

Artist Statement

BECOMING explores transformation and the fluid threshold between human and non-human forms. Discarded plastics—fragments shaped by consumption yet abandoned—are intuitively balanced to create assemblages that evoke figure-like presences. Wooden supports provide an organic counterpoint, reinforcing the delicate equilibrium at play. The work reflects both the fragility and persistence of synthetic matter, inviting viewers to contemplate coexistence with non-human materials and the possibilities of continual transformation.

Artist Biography

Miria Miria is a cross‑media artist whose practice spans assemblage, installation, painting, and performance, creating constellations of interconnected works. Originally from Japan, she has lived and worked across Asia, Oceania, and the UK, experiences that inform her exploration of the shifting boundaries between human and non‑human worlds.

Beginning her artistic journey in her fifties, Miria is drawn to overlooked and enduring materials, particularly discarded plastics and uranium glass. Her assemblages, intuitively balanced and supported by wooden structures, evoke fragile, figure‑like presences that transform from playful, colourful forms by day to otherworldly glowing silhouettes under black light.

Through these shifting works, she invites viewers to pause and reconsider their relationship with matter, time, and the traces we leave behind. Miria has exhibited internationally, with recent solo and group shows in the UK, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.